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EATON-SUTHERLAND 


LAYTON-HILL 


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FAMILIES  OF 


EATON-SUTHERLAND 
LAYTON-HILL 


BY 


REV.  ARTHUR  VVENTWORTH  HAMILTON  EATON.  B.A. 


COMPILER  OF 

"THE   NOVA  SCOTIA   EATONS,"     "THE    OLIVESTOB    HAMILTONS,"     "THE    ELMWOOD 

EATONS,"     "THE  HAMILTONS  OF  DOVER   AND   BERWICK,"     "WILLIAM 

THORNS  AND  SOME  OF  HIS  DESCENDANTS,"  "  THE  COCHRAN 

AND  INGLIS  FAMILIES  OF  HALIFAX." 

AUTHOR  OF 

"  THE  CHURCH  OF  ENGLAND  IN  NOVA  SCOTIA  AND  THE  TORY  CLERGY  OF  THE 

REVOLUTION,"  "ACADIAN  LEGENDS  AND  LYRICS,"  AC,  *C. 


NEW  YORK 
Privately  Printed 


1899 


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EATON-SUTHERLAND 


RuFus  William  Eaton,  born  at  Kentville,  Nova  Scotia, 
August  23,  1856,  third  son  of  William  and  Anna  Augusta 
Willoughby  (Hamilton)  Eaton,  married  in  St.  James' 
Church,  Kentville  (Rev.  John  Owen  Ruggles  officiating), 
September  ii,  1888,  Anna  Laiirie,  born  June  8,  1863,  only- 
child  of  Kenneth  Ronaldson  and  Nancy  Jean  (Tays) 
Sutherland.    Residence,  Dunrobin,  Kentville. 

CHILDREN. 

Kenneth  Sutherland,  b.  April  30,  1890 

bap,  July  14,  " 
William  Ronald,  b.  Sept.  27,  1891 

bap.  Dec.  2,  " 
Jean  Hamilton,  b.  May  20,  1894 
bap.  July  31,  " 
(See  Ehnwood  Batons.) 

Nancy  Jean  (Tays)  Sutherland,  bom  February  25, 
1836,  was  a  daughter  of  John  and  Jean  (Ellis)  Tays,  of 
Stewiacke,  Nova  Scotia,  of  a  North  of  Ireland  Scottish, 
Church  of  England  family.  John  Tays  was  a  son  of  Joseph 
and  Letitia  (Wilkin)  Tays,  and  was  born  in  Ireland.  Jean 
Ellis  was  a  daughter  of  George  and  Agnes  (Wardrope) 
Ellis,  of  Fort  Ellis,  Stewiacke.  John  and  Jean  (Ellis) 
Tays  had  eight  children,  six  sons  and  two  daughters. 
The  eldest  son,  Joseph  Wilkin  Tays,  studied  at  King's 
College,  and  took  Orders  in  the  Church  of  England.  He 
settled  at  El  Paso,  Texas,  and  died  November  6,  1884, 
leaving  two  sons,  civil  engineers.  Another  son  of  John 
and  Jean  Tays,  Joseph  Alexander,  was  for  years  collector 


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of  customs  at  Ontario,  California,  and  died  March  6, 
1892.  The  only  surviving  sons  at  this  date  are  John 
Burnett,  who  settled  in  Ontario,  California,  and  is  the 
owner  of  large  orange  groves  ;  and  Alexander,  who  lives 
in  Texas.  The  other  daughter,  Mary,  was  married  to 
Thomas  Blake. 

The  SuTHKRi.ANi)  family  is  immediately  descended  from 
Angus  Sutherland,  of  Ross  Shire,  Scotland,  "  Trtistee  to 
Ardross,"  the  date  of  whose  birth  is  not  known,  but  who 
was  an  old  man  in  1745.  He  was  taken  prisoner  by  the 
Earl  of  Cromarty  in  his  expedition  into  Sutherlandshire 
some  time  in  the  eighteenth  century. 

Angus'  Sutherland  had  at  least  two  sons:  Kenneth' 
and  Angus"  (ancestor  of  the  Leslies  of  Annapolis  Royal). 

Kenneth'  m.  Christina  Ross  of  Ross  Shire  and  had 
sons  :  David ',  Angus ',  Donald  * ;  and  daughters  Chris- 
tina*, and  Janet'.  Of  these  sons,  David' went  to  Caith- 
ness and  married  Catherine,  daughter  of  Hugh  McKenzie, 
Esq.,  of  Creigh,  Sutherlandshire,  who  died  in  1805,  leaving 
one  son  Kenneth*,  in  Helmsdale,  Sutherland,  and  several 
daughters.  Angus'  was  a  captain  in  the  army,  and  served 
at  the  siege  of  Gibraltar,  under  General  George  Elliott. 
He  died  in  the  island  of  Guernsey  in  1801  or  1802.  His 
wife  was  a  lady  of  Elgin  and  Murray,  and  they  had  one 
daughter,  Christina*,  who  married  Captain  Kerry,  an  Irish 
gentleman,  and  had  daughters,  one  of  whom  married  a 
Mr.  Parker.     Mrs.  Kerry  m.  (2)  Major  Baldwin. 

Christina '  {Kenneth ')  m.  Donald  Sutherland  of  Ro- 
gent,  Sutherlandshire,  and  had  two  sons,  Angus*  and 
David  or  Donald  *,  who  came  to  the  British  Provinces  in 
1803.  Janet '  {Kenneth  ")  m.  James  Welsh,  of  Elgin,  who 
moved  to  London.  They  had  two  sons  and  two  daughters. 
The  sons  were  officers  in  the  army. 


Donald*  (youn^''cst  child  of  Kenneth*),  of  Muckle- 
ferry,  m.  Christina  Gordon,  dauji^hter  of  James  Gordon, 
Esq.,  and  had  sons  :  Spencer  *,  Kenneth  *,  and  John  * ;  and 
dauji^hters,  Jane*  and  Christina*.  He  died  in  1798.  Of 
these  sons,  Kenneth*  emijjratcd  to  Lower  Canada  in  1813, 
and  married  there  twice.  By  his  first  marriage  he  had 
children:  Spencer',  Joseph',  Elizabeth',  Jane',  Sarah', 
all  of  whom  married.  By  his  second  marriage  he  had 
Mary',  Isabella',  Christina'. 


John*  (third  son  of  Donald*  and  Christina  Gordon) 
m.  Christina  Ronaldson,  and  had  sons:  Kenneth  Ronai.d- 
soN ',  John ';  and  a  daughter,  Jane  '.  He  died  in  1830.  Of 
the  sons,  Kenneth  Ronaldson'  and  John  '  in  1852-54  came 
to  Upper  Canada,  and  subsequently  to  Nova  Scotia. 
Kenneth',  a  railway  contractor,  b.  in  Edinburgh,  August 
15,  1831,  m.  May  20,  1861,  in  Colchester  County,  Nancy 
Jean  Tays,  and  died  July  27,  1885.     They  had  one  child  : 

Anna  Laurie*,  b.  June  8,  1863,  m.  Rufus  William 
Eaton. 

Both  John '  and  Jane '  died  unmarried. 

Spencer*  (eldest  son  of  Donald*  and  Christina  Gordon) 
m.  (i),  in  1810,  Elizabeth  Rae,  and  had  one  son,  George 
Rae  ',  and  four  daughters :  Janet ',  deceased  ;  Christina ', 
deceased;  Mary'  arid  Jane',  who  lived  in  Shubenacadie. 
Spencer*  m.  (2)  Margaret  Johnston,  and  had  eleven  sons 
and  one  daughter,  Margaret.  One  of  the  sons  is  Kenneth 
Sutherland,  of  Kentville,  late  manager  of  the  Dominion 
Atlantic  Railway,  who  married  Miss  Lex,  of  Philadelphia. 

George  Rae  '  m.,  in  1851,  Jean  Richardson,  second 
daughter  of  William  Pyle,  Esq.,  and  has  had  four  sons 
and  six  daughters :    A  daughter  died  in  infancy ;   Agnes, 


m.  to  Joseph  Matterson,  Esq.,  of  Limerick,  Ireland — 
residence.  Castle  Troy  House ;  William  George  ;  Donald 
Gordon,  deceased ;  Bessie  Rae,  m.  to  W.  H.  Lee,  and  now 
living  in  Revelstoke,  British  Columbia ;  Jean  Richard- 
son ;  Thomas,  living  in  British  Columbia ;  Anna  Maria, 
m.  October  24,  1898,  at  St.  Luke's  Cathedral,  Halifax,  to 
A.  F.  Gurney,  of  Ramsey  Lodge,  Essex,  England ;  John, 
living  in  British  Columbia  ;  Mary  Gordon. 

Jane*  (eldest  daughter  of  Donald"^  and  Christina 
Gordon),  m.  to  John  Cochrane,  Esq.,  of  Elm  Bank,  Gala- 
shiels, Scotland,  and  had  two  sons  and  seven  daughters. 
She  died  in  1864. 

Christina  Gordon',  daughter  of  James  Gordon*  (son 
of  John  Gordon\  a  landed  proprietor  in  "Lord  Rea's 
Country")  and  his  wife  Jane  (McKay,  daughter  of  James 
McKay,  Esq.,  of  Muckleferry),  m.  Donald  Sutherland', 
of  Muckleferry.  She  had  brothers,  Alexander',  John', 
Robert ',  Joseph ',  and  others.  Four  of  these  brothers 
died  in  infancy ;  Alexander '  was  a  planter  in  Jamaica, 
and  John '  in  the  island  of  Martinique.  Robert '  died  in 
Martinique  of  yellow  fever. 


Christina  (Gordon')  Sutherland  wasm.  (2)  to  George 
Munro,  Esq.,  captain  and  adjutant  in  H.  M.  71st  Regt. 
They  had  children :  James,  Mary,  and  Isabella,  all  alive 
in  1865.  Captain  Munro  was  previously  married  to  Mary 
Matheson,  daughter  of  Dr.  Matheson,  of  Niver  Gordon, 
Ross  Shire,  and  by  this  marriage  had  two  children,  John 
and  Anna.    John  died  in  the  West  Indies ;  Anna  was  m. 

to  Currie,  78th  Regt.,  and  died  in  Ireland.     She 

had  children  who  lived  in  Midlothian. 


Dr.  Robert  Leslie  *,  son  of  Hugh  Leslie,  Esq.,  proctor- 
fiscal  of  Dornoch,  and  his  wife  Christina  Sutherland' 
(Angus*)^  was  an  army  surgeon,  who  finally  retired  and 
settled  in  Annapolis  Royal,  Nova  Scotia.  He  married 
twice,  and  left  sons  and  daughters.  Hugh  Leslie ',  father 
of  Robert,  and  his  wife  Christina  Sutherland  had  also : 
Angus*,  Elizabeth*,  Jessie*,  Christina*,  Anna*,  Kate*, 
and  others.  Angus*  was  an  officer  in  the  army,  who, 
when  he  retired,  became  one  of  the  agents  of  the  Duke 
of  Sutherland  on  his  estates  in  Sutherlandshire.  Still 
later  he  engaged  in  sheep  farming.  He  died  unmarried 
in  1855.  Jessie  Leslie*  was  married  to  a  Mr.  McKenzie 
in  London.  Anna  *  married  a  Mr.  Masters,  and  lived  in 
New  York.  Elizabeth  *,  Christina  *,  and  Kate  *  died  un- 
married. 

Anna  Laurie  (Sutherland)  Eaton  is  thus  a  great- 
great-great-grandchild  of  Angxis  Sutherland ',  and  her 
descent  is:  Angus',  Kenneth",  Donald*,  John*,  Kenneth'. 
From  the  foregoing  record  it  will  be  seen  that  many  of 
her  relatives  have  been  British  officers,  as,  for  example : 
Captain  Angus  Sutherland ',  her  great  -  grandfather's 
brother,  and  Captain  Kerry  and  Major  Baldwin,  the  hus- 
bands successively  of  Captain  Angus'  daughter  Christina; 
and  the  brothers  Welsh,  also  her  grandfather's  first  cousins. 
After  her  great-grandfather  Donald's '  death,  her  great- 
grandmother  Christina,  a  highly  accomplished  woman, 
became  the  second  wife  of  Captain  and  Adjutant  George 
Munro,  of  the  71st  Regt.  David  Sutherland*  (Angus'), 
her  great-grandfather's  first  cousin,  was  an  officer;  Angus 
Leslie  *,  her  grandfather's  second  cousin,  was  an  officer  ; 
and  Dr.  Robert  Leslie  *,  brother  of  Angus  *,  was  an  army 
surgeon. 


The  arms  used  by  this  family  of  Sutherlands  are  the 
arms  recorded  for  the  fifteenth  Earl,  in  1719,  and  are  as 
follows : 

Gules,  three  mullets  or,  on  a  bordure  of  the  second 
a  double  tressure  flory  counterflory  of  the  first.  Crest : 
A  cat-a-mountain  salient  ppr.  Motto  :  Sans  Peur.  The 
family  is  descended  from  King  Robert  I.  of  Scotland,  and 
is  one  of  the  most  ancient  in  Britain.  The  different  crea- 
tions have  been : 


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Scottish  Earldom,  1228 

Baronet  of  Nova  Scotia,  January  2, 1620 

Baron,  March  16,  1702-3 

Earl,  July  8,  1746 

Marquess,  March  i,  1786 

Duke,  January  28,  ib  jj 


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The  earliest  ancestor  of  the  Layton  family  in  Nova 
Scotia  was  Francis  Layton  ',  who  was  born  in  Yorkshire, 
England,  in  1719,  married  (i),  probably  in  1772,  Elizabeth 
West,  and,  embarking  at  Hull,  came  to  Falmouth,  Nova 
Scotia,  about  1776.  By  his  first  marriage  he  had  four  sons, 
of  whom  the  eldest,  Francis",  was  bom  in  England  in 
April,  1773.  His  other  sons  were:  Richard,  baptized  in 
Falmouth,  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Breynton,  Rector  of  St.  Paul's 
Church,  Halifax,  in  1776;  John,  baptized  also  by  the 
Rector  of  St.  Paul's,  June  6,  1777  ;  and  William,  the  date 
of  whose  baptisrr  "  .  not  been  found.  The  baptism  of 
Francis*  is  of  .xbe  recorded  in  some  parish  church  in 
Yorkshire.  It  is  possible  that  William  may  have  been 
the  second  son,  and  that  his  baptism  was  also  in  England. 
The  wife  of  Francis'  was  Abigail  Stevens,  of  a  Loyalist 
family  in  Onslow.  He  married  her  March  5, 1801,  and  one 
of  their  sons  was  Francis '. 

The  history  and  pedigree  of  this  important  Yorkshire 
family  will  be  found  in  Marshal-General  Plantagenet- 
Harrison's  magnificent  "  History  of  Yorkshire."  Its  arms 
are :  Argent,  a  fesse  between  six  cross  crosslets  fitchee 
sable.  Crest:  Out  of  a  mural  coronet  two  wings  expanded, 
argent,  each  charged  with  a  cross  crosslet  fitchee  sable. 
Motto  :   In  Omnia  Paratus. 


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Francis  Layton,  of  the  third  generation  in  Nova 
Scotia  [Francis",  Francis^),  was  born  May  i8,  1808,  and 
died  November  21,  1871.  He  married,  February  23,  1837, 
Mary  Anne,  fourth  daughter  of  Joseph,  Jr.,  and  Mary 
(Vance)  Crowe,  born  December  27,  1812.  Residence : 
The  Willows,  Truro. 

CHILDREN. 

Helen  Maria, 
George  Albert. 
Sarah  Crowe. 
Norman  Joseph. 

Of  these  sons,  George  Albert  married,  December  6, 
1882,  Anna  Morton,  only  surviving  daughter  of  William 
and  Anna  Augusta  Willoughby  (Hamilton)  Eaton,  of 
Elmwood,  Kentville.     Residence  :  Ravensworth,  Truro. 

CHILD. 

Francis  Paul  Hamilton,  b.  13  April,  1888. 


Of  Mrs.  Francis  Layton 's  brothers,  David  Vance  Crowe, 
the  eldest,  born  July  9,  1795,  was  a  justice  of  the  peace, 
and  Custos  Rotulorum,  for  Colchester.  Joseph,  the 
second,  who  was  born  in  1799,  married  (i)  Margaret, 
daughter  of  Charles  and  Sarah  (Fulton)  Hill,  of  Economy, 
by  whom  he  had  two  sons  and  one  daughter.  One  of 
these  oons  was  for  many  years  sheriff  of  Colchester. 
Charles  Hill,  the  father  of  Mrs.  Joseph  Crowe,  was  the 
second  son  of  Patrick  Hill,  of  Economy,  brother  of  the 
Honorable  Charles  Hill,  M.  L.  C,  of  Halifax,  and  of  Jane 
(Hill),  wife  of  David  Vance. 

His  first  wife,  Sarah  Fulton,  was  one  of  the  daughters 
of  James  Fulton,  Esq.,  born  in  Belfast,  Ireland,  in  1740, 
for  many  years  a  justice  of  the  peace  and  judge  of  the 


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Court  of  Common  Pleas  in  Colchester,  and  from  1799  to 
1806  representative  of  the  County  of  Halifax  in  the  local 
legislature.  Another  of  Judge  Fulton's  daughters,  Ann, 
was  the  wife  of  Samuel  Hill,  third  son  of  Patrick  Hill, 
of  Economy. 

The  maternal  grandparents  of  Mrs.  Francis  Layton 
were  David  and  Jane  (Hill)  Vance,  who  were  born  in 
the  North  of  Ireland,  and  came  to  Nova  Scotia  in  1761 
They  were  residents  of  Economy,  Colchester  County, 
where  they  married  and  had  a  family.  David  Vance  died 
January  31,  1832,  aged  84  ;  Mrs.  Vance  died  October  27  or 
29,  1827,  in  her  72d  year.  Jane  (Hill)  Vance  was  a  sister, 
and  the  only  sister  we  know  of,  of  the  Honorable  Charles 
and  Patrick  Hill,  and  aunt  of  Robert  Hill,  Jr.,  of  Halifax 
(born  August  14,  1772,  son  of  Robert  Hill,  vSr.,  another 
brother  of  Honorable  Charles  and  Patrick),  who  married, 
in  Halifax,  May  21,  1795,  Elizabeth,  eldest  daughter  of 
John  and  Elizabeth  Cleveland,  born  September  10,  1775. 

Few  families  have  attained  the  prominence  in  Nova 
Scotia  of  this  Hill  family.  The  father,  Robert  Hill,  with 
three  sons,  Charles,  Patrick,  and  Robert,  and  one  daughter, 
Jane,  came  from  the  North  of  Ireland  in  Col.  Alexander 
McNutt's  company,  probably  in  the  autumn  of  1761,  and 
settled  in  Economy.  From  there,  probably,  Charles  Hill, 
and  a  nephew  Robert,  son  of  Robert,  went  to  Halifax, 
engaged  successfully  in  business,  and  founded  families, 
the  nephew's  becoming  in  time  much  the  more  important. 
In  1801,  Charles  Hill,  was  admitted  to  a  seat  in  the  Legis- 
lative Council,  and  from  that  time  until  his  death,  in  1825, 
he  was  one  of  its  most  prominent  members.  The  nephew, 
Robert  Hill,  died  in  his  fortieth  year,  March  16,  181 2, 
having  had,  however,  by  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Cleveland,  no 
less  than  nine  children.  His  widow  afterwards  married 
Major  Thomas  King,  of  Retreat  Farm,  Windsor. 

The  Honorable  Charles  Hill  married  (i)  Rebecca , 

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by  whom  he  had  two  daughters,  Rebecca,  and  Mary  Ann ; 
(2)  Isabella  Allan,  youngest  daughter  of  William  and 
Isabella  (Maxwell)  Allan,  by  whom  he  had  one  daughter, 
Isabella,  who  died  young,  unmarried.  He  had  at  least 
one  son,  who  also  died  young.  His  daughter  Rebecca,  in 
1803,  became  the  wife  of  Thomas  Wallace,  of  Halifax ; 
and  his  daughter  Mary  Ann  was  married  to  Richard  John 
Uniacke,  Jr.,  judge  of  the  »Supreme  Court  of  Nova  Scotia. 
Of  this  union  there  were  four  children  born  :  (i)  Charles 
Hill,  an  officer  in  the  2d  Dragoons  (Royal  Scots  Grays), 
6th  Dragoon  Guards,  and  10th  Hussars,  who  served  in  the 
Crimea  and  the  Indian  Mutiny;  (2)  Richard  John  Nor- 
man ;  (3)  Helen  Maria ;  and  (4)  Mary  Mitchell,  who 
married  Lieutenant  Watkins  (of  Badby  House,  North- 
ampton), of  the  38th  Regiment,  and  left  descendants. 
See  in  Burke's  Landed  Gentry,  Watkins  of  Badby  House. 
Mrs.  Watkins  was  the  only  one  of  this  Uniacke  family 
who  left  descendants.  She  and  her  sister  Helen  Maria, 
and  her  brothers  Charles  Hill  and  Richard  John  Norman, 
were  second  cousins  of  Mrs.  Francis  Layton,  and  from  the 
closeness  of  the  connection  of  the  families,  two  of  Francis 
Layton's  children  were  given  Uniacke  names. 

Hon.  Charles  Hill's  eldest  daughter  Rebecca,  who  be- 
came the  wife  of  Thomas  Wallace,  had  one  son,  Charles 
Hill  Wallace,  a  member  of  Lincoln's  Inn,  who  married  in 
1830,  Mary  Ann  Willoughby,  and  died  at  Tunbridge  Wells, 
in  1845.  He  left  four  children:  Willoughby;  Charles 
Hill ;  Nesbit  Willoughby ;  and  Marie.  Rev.  Charles  Hill 
Wallace,  Jr.,  was  educated  at  Pembroke  College,  Oxford, 
and  is  a  canon  of  Bristol.  Nesbit  Willoughby  married 
Susan  Copley  Ogden,  who  died  in  1894,  at  Bishopstoke, 
having  had  six  children  :  Beatrice  ;  Edith  ;  Lyndhurst ; 
Violet ;  Aylmer ;  and  Daisy.  Nesbit  Willoughby  Wallace 
is  a  retired  lieutenant-colonel  of  the  60th  King's  Royal 
Rifles,  and  J.  P.  for  the  County  of  Southampton,  and  lives 

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at  St.  John's,  Bishopstoke.  Canon  Charles  Hill  Wallace, 
of  Bristol,  and  the  other  descendants  of  Hon.  Charles  Hill, 
of  his  generation,  are  therefore  third  cousins  of  George 
Albert  and  Norman  Joseph  Layton. 

Robert  Hill,  of  Halifax,  whose  tomb,  like  that  of  his 
uncle  Charles,  is  in  wSt.  Paul's  Churchyard,  on  Pleasant 
Street,  married,  as  we  have  said.  May  21,  1795,  Elizabeth, 
eldest  daughter  of  John  Cleveland,  and  had  nine  children, 
who  were  all,  of  course,  second  cousins  of  Mrs.  Francis 
Layton.  The  eldest  of  this  family  was  Charles  John 
Hiir,  for  many  years  of  Her  Majesty's  Dockyard  in 
Halifax.  He  married,  in  England,  Ann,  eldest  daughter 
of  Richard  Symons,  who  died  December  7, 1874,  at  Fritham 
Lodge,  Lyndhurst,  Hants,  having  had  thirteen  children. 
He  was  for  many  years  lieutenant-colonel  commanding 
the  2d  (Queen's  Own)  Halifax  regiment,  and  was  a  "genial 
gentleman,  for  whom  the  citizens  of  Halifax  entertained 
the  most  sincere  good  will."  His  seal,  dated  by  the 
Herald's  College,  is  in  possession  of  his  grandson,  Mr. 
Arthur  Hiir.  He  died  at  Fritham  Lodge,  February  19, 
1876,  in  his  80th  year. 

Of  the  thirteen  children  of  Charles  John  Hill',  ten 
were  daughters ;  and  the  memory  of  the  "  handsome  Miss 
Hills,  of  the  Dockyard,"  seems  in  no  danger  of  fading 
from  the  minds  of  Halifax  people.  Of  these  daughters, 
Ann,  born  August  4, 1819,  married  James  Johnstone  Grieve, 
and  had  eleven  children.  Elisabeth  married  (i),  in  1840, 
George  Ferguson,  of  Houghton  Hall,  Carlisle,  lieutenant 
23d  Royal  Welsh  Fusiliers,  and  had  three  children  ;  (2), 
in  1854,  Arthur  James  Herbert,  major  23d  Royal  Welsh 
Fusiliers,  who  became  a  general,  and  was  made  K.  C.  B. 
in  1882.  Lady  Herbert  lives  at  24  Thurloe  Square,  Lon- 
don, 3.  W.  Isabella  married,  in  1847,  James  Richardson 
Forman,  C.  E.,  and  had  ten  children,  one  of  whom, 
Florence  Louisa,  married  Lieutenant  Edward  John  Hill, 

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R.  N.,  retired;  another,  Ida  Georgina  Mary,  married  Major 
Grojjan,  of  the  Black  Watch  (42d  Royal  Hi>,dilanders). 
Jessie  married,  in  1852  (as  his  second  wife),  Edmund 
Heathcote,  admiral,  R.  N.,  and  had  one  son.  Lieutenant 
Arthur  Cleveland  Heathcote,  R.  N.,  who  married,  in  1886, 
Georgina  Florence  Vance  (daughter  of  Thomas  Vance, 
J.  P.,  of  Rlackrock  House,  Dublin).  Mary  married,  in  1857, 
Rev.  G.  W.  Sprott,  a  Presbyterian  clergyman,  and  had  ten 
children.  Amelia  married  (1),  in  1854,  Lieutenant  Arthur 
Payne  Smith,  Royal  Engineers;  (2),  in  1861,  Lieutenant 
Archibald  George  Campbell  Keen,  62d  Foot.  Grace 
married,  m  1858,  Lieutenant  Philip  Harington,  Royal 
Marine  Light  Infantry,  and  had  six  children.  Georgina 
married,  in  1863,  John  Watt  Reid,  M.  D.,  R.  N.,  who  was 
made  a  K.  C.  B.  in  1882  ;  and  had  seven  children.  Sir 
John  and  Lady  Reid  live  at  Fairview  House,  Vancouver, 
B.  C.  One  of  their  sons,  John  Watt,  is  a  retired  captain, 
R.  A.  Of  the  sons  of  Charles  John  Hill  *  {Robert  \  Robert  \ 
Robert^),  Charles  (born  July  24,  1822,  died  March  19,  1894, 
at  Castle  Mai  wood,  Lyndhurst,  Hants)  married  (i),  July 
5,  1848,  at  Sourabaya,  Java,  Cornelia  de  Neufville,  only 
daughter  of  George  Pieter  de  Neufville,  of  the  Hague, 
Holland,  and  had  by  her  eight  children,  the  youngest  of 
whom  is  Arthur  Hill,  Esq.,  of  Castle  Malwood,  Lyndhurst, 
Hants.  The  eldest  daughter  of  this  family  married,  in 
1873,  Baron  Wulf  von  Bultzingslowen,  second  son  of 
Lieutenant-Colonel  Baron  Ferdinand  von  Biiltzingsldwen, 
and  lives  at  Schlachtensee,  near  Berlin. 

Of  the  other  children  of  Robert  Hill ',  Eliza  became 
the  wife  of  William  Maxwell  Allan,  and  one  of  her 
daughters  is  Elizabeth,  widow  of  James  A.  Moren,  Esq., 
of  188  Pleasant  Street,  Halifax.  Mary  Rebecca  married, 
in  1816,  Lieutenant  Benjamin  O'Neale  Lyster,  R.  A.,  and 
died  aged  twenty-eight.  Jane,  married  Hon.  Richard 
McHeffey,  M.  L.  C,  of  Windsor  ;  and  George,  born  in  1811, 


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married,  in  iSjj,  Mary,  second  dauj^hter  of  Hon.  Samuel 
Georjfe  William  Archibald  and  sister  of  Sir  Edward 
Mortimer  Archibald,  and  had  a  daughter  Mary,  who  be- 
came the  wife  of  William  Johnstone,  Esq.,  barrister  at 
law,  a  son  of  Judge  J.  W.  Johnstone,  the  great  Conserva- 
tive leader  of  Nova  Scotia. 

The  children  of  Robert  Hill ',  as  we  have  said,  were 
all  second  cousins  of  Mrs.  Francis  Layton.  Enumerating 
more  carefully,  these  were  :  Charles  John,  of  H.  M.  Dock- 
yard ;  Eliza,  wife  of  William  M.  Allan  ;  Mary  Rebecca, 
wife  of  Lieutenant  Lyster,  R.  A.;  Robert;  Richard  Cleve- 
land; Thomas  Liddell ;  William  (who  married  Cavilla 
Albro,  youngest  daughter  of  Francis  Stevens)  ;  Jane,  wife 
of  Hon.  Richard  McHeffey;  and  George,  who  married 
Mary  Archibald.  The  children  of  Charles  John  Hill,  and 
their  first  cousins,  were  thus,  of  course,  third  cousins  of 
George  Albert  and  Norman  Joseph  Layton.  Among  these 
were  :  Mrs.  Grieve  ;  Lady  Herbert ;  Charies  Hill,  of  Castle 
Malwood;  Mrs.  Forman  ;  Mrs.  Heathcote;  Mrs,  Sprott ; 
Mrs.  Keen;  Mrs.  Harrington;  Lady  Reid ;  and  Mrs. 
Moren,  of  Halifax. 

The  children  of  these  persons,  including  Arthur  Hill, 
Esq.,  of  Castle  Malwood  (the  genealogist  of  the  Hill 
family),  are  all  fourth  cousins  of  Francis  Paul  Hamilton 
Layton. 

By  his  second  marriage— probably  in  1799 — to  Isabella 
Allan,  the  Hon.  Charles  Hill,  of  Halifax,  allied  his  family 
to  that  of  the  Hon.  Thomas  Cochran,  who  was  also  from 
the  North  of  Ireland,  and  the  founder  of  another  highly 
important  family  in  Halifax.  Mr.  Cochran  married  (2), 
February  7,  1775,  Jean  Allan,  sister  of  Mrs.  Charles  Hill, 
and  by  this  marriage  had  Thomas,  William,  Eliza,  Isabella, 
James,  Rupert  John,  and  two  or  three  other  children. 
Of  this  family,  Thomas  became  chief  justice  of  Prince 
Edward  Island  ;  William  became  a  general  in  the  army ; 


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Eliza  was  married  to  the  Rt.  Rev.  John  Injflis,  D.  D,, 
third  Bishop  of  Nova  Scotia,  and  was  the  mother  of  Sir 
John  Eardley  Wilmot  Inglis,  hero  of  Lucknow  ;  Isabella 
became  the  wife  of  Dean  Ramsay,  of  Edinburgh  ;  James 
became  chief  justice  of  Gibraltar,  and  was  knighted  ;  and 
Rupert  John  married,  in  New  York,  Isabella  Clarke,  and 
had,  among  other  children,  Isabella-Ramsay,  wife  of 
Edward  King,  Esq.,  of  New  York,  and  Harriet-Georgina- 
Alice,  now  the  widow  of  Sir  James-Thomas  Stewart- 
Richardson,  Bart.,  of  Pitfour,  Scotland.  By  his  first 
marriage,  the  Hon.  Thomas  Cochran  had  one  daughter, 
Margaret,  the  wife  of  Admiral  Sir  Rupert  George,  Bart. 


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